In the deep space of the universe, the energy storm that had been colliding violently suddenly stalled.
The Asura God King hovered amidst the shattered stardust. The dark red divine light surrounding him, which had originally been as stable as the bedrock of the universe and filled with the majesty of judgment, began to undergo a bizarre transformation. The hue shifted toward a deeper dark purple, and the light was no longer pure; instead, it exuded an unsettling aura of evil, chaos, and arrogance that made one's heart palpitate.
He did not attack immediately, but instead released a streak of light, looking down at the dark red small cauldron floating beside him that sealed Tang San. A flash of resolution crossed his eyes, accompanied by an indescribable sense of irritation.
"Trash is trash after all, forcing this seat to resort to such a desperate measure..." he muttered to himself, then waved his sleeve!
The lid of the dark red cauldron burst open, and a powerful suction force pulled not outward, but inward! Immediately following, an extremely unstable dark purple mass of light—filled with the aura of corruption, resentment, and curses—was forcibly extracted from the cauldron. It was the Rakshasa God Position that had just merged with Tang San, along with Tang San's divine soul, which had been reduced to a state of extreme weakness and deep slumber.
"Merge!"
The Asura God King let out a low shout and opened his giant mouth, swallowing the mass of light—which represented the origin of "evil slaughter"—along with Tang San's divine soul in one gulp, as if drinking from a whale.
"BOOM—!!!"
A terrifying energy fluctuation, impossible to describe, erupted violently with the Asura God King at its center! The divine light around him instantly transformed from dark red into a chaotic, dark purple-blood color that seemed to fuse righteous judgment with evil curses!
His momentum climbed crazily without limit, instantly breaking through previous boundaries and reaching a terrifying height that made the souls of Qian Daoliu, Tang Chen, and the others, who were watching the battle from afar, tremble and their bodies stiffen!
The Yuanchen Divine Domain that had originally shrouded the battlefield was forcibly squeezed and compressed by this surging momentum, its range sharply reduced and its light dimmed! Yu Yuanchen let out a muffled groan, retreated several steps while holding his spear, and for the first time, revealed an expression of extreme gravity!
At this moment, the Asura God King's figure seemed to have expanded by a circle. Dark purple, twisted, ghostly rune patterns appeared on his blood-colored divine armor, and the blade of the Asura Demon Sword in his hand was also wreathed in ominous purple-black currents.
His originally ancient and majestic face and temperament now carried an unbridled arrogance. The gaze he cast toward Yu Yuanchen was filled with the playfulness of a cat toying with a mouse and a sense of crushing superiority.
"Yu Yuanchen!" The Asura God King's voice had become hoarse and filled with malice. "Do you feel the gap? This is the true power of this seat! The true posture of the Number One Attacker in the God Realm."
Yu Yuanchen's complexion was grave to the extreme. He said in a deep voice, "Asura, you are insane! The Asura God Position governs order and judgment, while the Rakshasa God Position governs evil and corruption. Their origins are contradictory. By forcibly merging them, are you not afraid that your god position will be completely polluted by the Rakshasa origin, ultimately falling into a place of eternal damnation?"
"Pollution? Corruption?" The Asura God King sneered. He seemed to enjoy the feeling of having his power fully unleashed without the need for further concealment. With a hint of smugness, he began to reveal a secret hidden for countless tens of thousands of years:
"You think that, as one of the Five Great God Kings, why is it that only this seat can firmly sit on the reputation of the 'Number One Combat Power'? Evil and Goodness are a pair, Life and Destruction are partners. They support each other, and their paths are complementary. By logic, their cultivation progress should far exceed that of a lone wolf like this seat!"
He brandished the demon sword, and the space where the blade passed left behind long-lasting purple-black traces of corrosion.
"The answer lies in—the Dragon God!" A flash of fanaticism and ferocity crossed the Asura God King's eyes. "This seat personally killed a Supreme God King!"
Once these words were spoken, Qian Daoliu and the others watching from afar all changed color! Killing a Supreme God King? What a heaven-shaking achievement this was! Although legend had it that the Dragon God died in a siege by the gods of the God Realm, hearing the implication from Asura, it was actually he who had personally delivered the final blow?
"Hmph, regardless of whether that madman Dragon God was willing to seek death or not, the fact is that he died under the sword of this seat, or rather, among the Five Great God Kings, only the sword of this seat could kill the Dragon God!" The Asura God King's tone carried incomparable pride. "The feedback brought by personally ending a Supreme God King while wielding the Law of Slaughter is something you cannot imagine! At that moment, I saw the dawn leading to the realm of the Supreme God King!"
However, the smugness on his face was quickly replaced by a trace of gloom.
"But success came from the Dragon God, and failure also came from the Dragon God! The feedback was too vast and too violent; this seat could not perfectly control it for a time. What was even more fatal was that the madman Dragon God, before dying, did not just split his physical body and divine soul, but also his chaotic and insane malice! Although most of it remained with the Golden Dragon King, a trace of the purest, most stubborn malice followed the karma of killing him and latched onto this seat!"
The Asura God King's voice carried a hint of lingering fear and anger: "The Law of Slaughter of this seat already walked between righteousness and evil. Being struck by this Dragon God Malice, coupled with unstable power, the origin of the law actually began to be polluted and distorted! This seat struggled for countless ages, trying every method, but could never eradicate it! In the end... I could only cut off my arm to save my life!"
He pointed to his current dark purple-blood state: "This seat forcibly separated the portion of the god position origin and divine soul that had been polluted! That separated part gradually evolved on its own, becoming what you saw earlier—the Rakshasa God Position! A slaughter representing evil, corruption, and curses! And this seat retained the relatively 'pure' Asura God Position, symbolizing slaughter of order, judgment, and justice!"
"This separation, while temporarily getting rid of the pollution, caused the vast feedback this seat gained from killing the Dragon God to be almost wasted, and my cultivation level fell back to the starting point. More importantly..." A flash of extreme unwillingness crossed the Asura God King's eyes. "This path is also completely broken! An origin that has been polluted and then forcibly separated can never be perfect and flawless again. The realm of the Supreme God King has become a reflection in the mirror!"
While Yu Yuanchen was operating the Yuanchen Divine Domain with all his might to resist the terrifying pressure radiating from the Asura God King, he listened calmly to every word. Many doubts that had been accumulating in his heart for a long time were finally cleared up at this moment.
So, the so-called "Number One Combat Power of the God Realm" of the Asura God King actually hid such a secret, and the two god positions of Asura and Rakshasa were actually born from the same source, both originating from the separation of the Asura God King's own origin. No wonder the Law of Slaughter of the Rakshasa God Position had such a deep connection with the Asura God Position.
"So," Yu Yuanchen suddenly spoke, his voice remaining steady, "you discovered Tang San, an otherworldly soul carrying a special destiny, and thus began your scheme."
The Asura God King looked at Yu Yuanchen with slight surprise, as if he hadn't expected him to sort out the clues so quickly, then grinned hideously: "Correct! I had two choices. The first choice was to cultivate him to inherit the Rakshasa God Position and turn him into a dedicated 'trash can'! This seat could call upon the power of the Rakshasa God Position at any time, while letting this 'trash can' bear the backlash and pollution of the Dragon God Malice for me!"
"And the second choice..." A gleam of light flashed in Yu Yuanchen's eyes, "was to let him inherit your Asura God Position in name, and then... find an opportunity to possess him! This way, you could completely get rid of the identity of 'Asura God King', thereby severing the karma with the death of the Dragon God, and letting that malice no longer entangle you. At that time, you would take back the Rakshasa God Position, the origins of the two god positions would return to one, and you would be able to break free from the shackles and truly charge toward the Supreme Realm!"
The arrogant expression on the Asura God King's face stiffened slightly, then became even more hideous: "Smart! Truly smart! Yu Yuanchen, you see through things much more clearly than those idiots in the God Realm Committee! It's a pity, what a pity..." He shook his head regretfully.
"This trash Tang San was simply too disappointing! I lowered the standards again and again, and he didn't even have the qualifications to touch the threshold of the Asura God Position assessment! He was mud that couldn't be helped onto the wall! I had no choice but to settle for the second best and choose the first plan, turning him into a trash can!"
To ensure that this "trash can" would be obedient and not backfire, the Asura God King had long ago quietly integrated the polluted portion of his divine soul that he had separated into the depths of Tang San's soul origin, coexisting with it.
It could be said that from the moment Tang San stepped onto the path of a Soul Master, his soul no longer completely belonged to himself. The moment he achieved the Rakshasa God position, this connection was completely solidified. In front of the Asura God King, Tang San was almost equivalent to an external avatar that could be taken over at any time!
"Everything was going smoothly, and I only needed to clear away a stumbling block like you to be able to 'use' this trash can with peace of mind and slowly recover my power." The Asura God King looked at Yu Yuanchen with murderous intent. "It's just that I calculated everything, but I didn't calculate that you, Yu Yuanchen, could reach the point of being able to contend with me in such a short time! And I didn't expect that you... seemed to have sensed it long ago?"
Facing the Asura God King whose strength had skyrocketed, Yu Yuanchen, though falling into a disadvantage, could still barely hold on by relying on his Supreme God King Battle Body. The Yuanchen Dragon Spear danced like a wheel, barely neutralizing the terrifying attacks that tore through the galaxy. Every collision caused his qi and blood to surge, but the light of his battle body circulated, quickly repairing his injuries. He sneered in response: "Asura, your scheme probably doesn't end there, does it?"
"Oh?" The Asura God King's offensive slowed slightly, interested in hearing what else Yu Yuanchen could say.
"If you only treated Tang San as a 'trash can', you could indeed recover most of your power and return to the throne of the number one in the God Realm. But... the hope of going further would be completely slim."
Yu Yuanchen's gaze was like a torch, as if he could see through the human heart. "With your ambition, how could you be satisfied? Therefore, you set your sights on the legacy of the Dragon God! The Golden Dragon King is sealed in the God Realm, and the Silver Dragon King is dormant on Douluo Planet. The Golden Dragon bloodline in Tang San is probably not just for increasing his potential, is it? It's more like... an attempt? Or some kind of compatibility experiment?"
The Asura God King's pupils shrank.
Yu Yuanchen continued: "You want to covet the power of the Golden Dragon King, and even... recreate the power of the Dragon God? But the other God Kings are not fools. Evil, Goodness, Life, Destruction—they may check and balance each other, but they will never sit idly by while you monopolize the legacy of the Dragon God, break the balance of power in the God Realm, and threaten their status. Therefore, the several God Kings, including myself, are probably obstacles in your eyes that need to be cleared away step by step, right?"
"Hahahahaha!" Hearing this, the Asura God King let out a burst of crazy laughter, the laughter filled with the annoyance of being seen through and the murderous intent that was no longer concealed at all. "Yu Yuanchen, oh Yu Yuanchen! This seat appreciates you more and more, and wants to kill you more and more! You are right! After this seat clears away you annoying fellows, fuses the power of the Golden Dragon, and finds the Silver Dragon King... in this universe, who else can stop me?! The God Realm Committee? Nothing but a bunch of weaklings!"
He completely tore off his disguise, and his attacks became even more violent and ruthless. Dark purple-blood sword qi was like a storm, completely drowning Yu Yuanchen. Qian Daoliu, Tang Chen, Ye Zhilan, and Bo Saixi watched with burning anxiety, wanting to step forward to assist in the battle.
"Don't come over!" Yu Yuanchen's voice rang in the minds of the four, carrying an unquestionable resolution. "He is in a special state right now, and his power is bizarre. Your intervention will only distract me! Trust me!"
The four gritted their teeth and stopped, maintaining the barrier with all their might to prevent the aftermath of the battle from destroying galaxies further away.
In the center of the battlefield, Yu Yuanchen struggled to hold on amidst the sky-filling tide of sword qi. The Yuanchen Dragon Spear danced airtight, the tip of the spear constantly colliding with the sword qi. Every collision caused his qi and blood to surge, and cracks gradually appeared on his divine armor.
Seeing this, the murderous intent in the Asura God King's eyes grew stronger. He laughed wildly and raised the Asura Demon Sword. The sword body and the divine rune on his forehead lit up with dazzling dark purple-blood light at the same time, and a terrifying power far exceeding the previous one condensed within his body.
"Yu Yuanchen, being able to die under the hands of this seat in the fusion state is your honor! Asura Rakshasa—Asura Blood Sword!" The Asura God King laughed wildly, the Asura Demon Sword and the divine rune on his forehead lighting up simultaneously.
A dark red sword light wreathed in endless slaughter, judgment, and evil curses tore through the universe and descended toward Yu Yuanchen with a boom! The power was so great that it far exceeded any previous attack!
Yu Yuanchen's pupils constricted as he felt a lethal threat! He let out a wild roar, pushing his God King Battle Body to its limit, and the Yuanchen Dragon Spear erupted with unprecedented radiance, condensing all his power into a single strike!
"Yuanchen—World-Splitting!"
The ultimate strike collided violently!
BOOM—!!!!!!!!!
An indescribable explosion occurred! It was as if the universe had just been born in a Big Bang! Light swallowed everything! In the distance, the Douluo Planet trembled violently, and its star rings shattered! Qian Daoliu and the others turned pale, using all their strength to stabilize the planet!
As the light faded, Yu Yuanchen knelt on one knee in the void, his Yuanchen Dragon Spear covered in cracks, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, his divine armor shattered, and his aura withered; he was clearly severely wounded! The fused state of the Asura God King was simply too powerful!
"Hahahaha! Yu Yuanchen, accept your fate! Under the power of my complete 'Asura Rakshasa', you won't last much longer!" Although the Asura God King's aura was also fluctuating violently, he clearly held the absolute upper hand. He stepped toward Yu Yuanchen, his killing intent chilling.
He laughed wildly, knocking aside the Yuanchen Dragon Spear that Yu Yuanchen was using to block, and a sinister sword energy shot straight toward Yu Yuanchen's chest!
At this critical moment, a cold light flashed in Yu Yuanchen's eyes. Instead of taking the blow head-on, he shifted his body in a mysterious way. While struggling to dodge, he silently recited in his heart: "Now!"
A faint yet extremely pure, strange fluctuation carrying Yu Yuanchen's origin aura ignored the spatial distance, instantly penetrating the Asura God King's defenses and acting directly upon his inner body—at the core of the suppressed and swallowed Divine Soul of Tang San!
"Urgh?!" The Asura God King's determined strike suddenly veered off course, and for the first time, a look of shock and panic appeared on his face! "What is happening?! My control over Tang San's Divine Soul..."
This was the contingency plan Yu Yuanchen had spent great effort to plant subtly back when Tang San was still weak! A "Restriction" containing a sliver of his Divine Sense! This restriction was originally meant to interfere with his actions at a critical moment, but now, Yu Yuanchen used it to sever the connection between him and the Asura God, thereby breaking his control over Tang San, and furthermore... awakening Tang San!
To fully control Tang San, the Asura God King had fused his own polluted Divine Soul with Tang San's soul. Because Yu Yuanchen and his allies had arrived to confront him right after Tang San became a god, he had no time to erase Tang San's will.
To dominate Tang San's Divine Soul, he could only force him into a deep slumber. He hadn't used the Asura Rakshasa fusion from the start precisely because he was distracted by controlling Tang San's soul. But he had underestimated Yu Yuanchen's methods, and he had underestimated the despair and madness of a soul that had learned the truth!
"AH—!!!"
A shrill, venomous soul-piercing scream, filled with endless resentment and fury, erupted from within the Asura God King's body! It was Tang San's voice!
The forcibly awakened Divine Soul of Tang San perceived the information Yu Yuanchen had transmitted through the restriction—his own puppet-like situation, and all the conspiracies the Asura God King had buried deep within his soul—from the moment he transmigrated, it had all been a meticulously planned scam!
His so-called fortuitous encounters, hardships, power, and even his ascension to godhood were all scripts arranged by others, with the sole purpose of grooming him into a qualified "trash can" or "vessel"!
His mother's blood feud, Xiao Wu's sacrifice, the revenge and power he had sacrificed everything to pursue... in the end, it was all a joke?! His life was a tragedy and a scam from beginning to end!
"Asura—!!! You deserve to die!!!" Tang San's Divine Soul went completely insane in the depths of extreme resentment and despair! He knew he was too weak to resist the Asura God King, but he still had one final path to choose!
"You want to control me? Dream on! Even if I die, I'll tear a piece of flesh off you! Rakshasa God Position... EXPLODE!!!"
Tang San's remaining Divine Soul, filled with towering resentment toward the Asura God King, Yu Yuanchen, and the entire world, resolutely chose the most tragic path—burning his own Divine Soul while triggering the Rakshasa God Position that was bound to his life, intending to perish together!
"Scoundrel! You dare!" The Asura God King was both shocked and furious. He indeed held the highest authority over the Rakshasa God Position and immediately tried to suppress it with all his might! Tang San's soul-burning was forcibly interrupted, and the self-detonation of the Rakshasa God Position was contained.
But, he was half a step too late!
"Pfft—!"
The Asura God King's body shook violently, and he spat out a large mouthful of dark purple blood. The chaotic and powerful aura around him instantly became disordered and plummeted! The Rakshasa God Position was severely damaged, and the Asura God Position, which was connected to his origin, also suffered a backlash!
More importantly, the resolute self-destructive intent of Tang San, filled with extreme negative emotions, struck his origin like the most potent curse through their soul connection!
The brief, powerful strength he had gained from fusing the two god positions receded like a tide, and his body fell into a temporary state of rigidity.
And how could Yu Yuanchen miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opening?
"Now! Attack!"
"Yuanchen: World-Splitting World-Illumination!" Yu Yuanchen let out a long roar. The Yuanchen Dragon Spear, which had been accumulating power, erupted with unprecedented, brilliant light. Man and spear became one, transforming into the first ray of lightning to split the heavens and earth, piercing straight into the core vulnerability exposed by the Asura God King's backlash!
At the same time, having received the signal, Qian Daoliu, Tang Chen, Ye Zhilan, and Bo Saixi did not hesitate!
"Angel Sacred Radiance: Apocalypse Exorcism!" Qian Daoliu transformed into a ten-thousand-foot angel phantom, his body radiating holy light. The Angel Sacred Sword in his hand bloomed with a brilliant light that purified everything, and a massive holy sword energy tore through the void, heading straight for the Asura God King!
"Vast Sky: World Destruction!" Tang Chen channeled the Destruction God Position, the giant hammer in his hand expanding to ten thousand feet. The hammer was covered in Vast Sky runes, carrying the power to suppress the heavens and earth as it smashed fiercely toward the Asura God King!
"Life's Hymn: All Things Wither!" Ye Zhilan held the Law of Life, but at this moment, she reversed the law, turning life into withering. A deathly aura permeated her body, and a green light containing the power of life's decay transformed into a blade, piercing toward the Asura God King's Divine Soul!
"Sea God's Wrath: World Cleansing Torrent!" Bo Saixi channeled the power of the boundless ocean, giant waves churning around her as she transformed into a vast, endless blue torrent, carrying the dual power of purification and destruction as it swept toward the Asura God King!
The four First-level Deities unleashed their ultimate divine skills without reservation! Four rays of light in different colors, yet all containing world-destroying power, tore through the universe and, along with Yu Yuanchen's ultimate spear, struck the severely wounded and weakened Asura God King from five different directions, completely submerging him!
"NO—!!!"
The Asura God King let out a roar of despair and unwillingness. In the storm of destructive energy gathered from the full-force strikes of five Spirit-level Experts, his powerful God King body shattered like broken porcelain, disintegrating and turning into cosmic dust!
Only an extremely dim, crack-filled, broken Divine Soul, carrying the core of the equally damaged and flickering Asura Rakshasa God Position, fled directly into the body of Tang San—which had remained intact due to being stored in a small tripod during the aftermath, though his eyes were hollow (Tang San's consciousness had been almost completely annihilated). At the last moment, it burned some kind of forbidden secret technique, turning into an imperceptible blood-colored streak of light that raced toward the God Realm at an unimaginable speed, disappearing in an instant!
The aftermath of the combined strike from Yu Yuanchen and the others slowly dissipated. Looking at the empty void, where only broken stars and turbulent energy remained, they each wore different expressions.
"He still... managed to escape with his soul," Qian Daoliu sighed.
Yu Yuanchen put away the Yuanchen Dragon Spear. His complexion was slightly pale, but his eyes remained sharp. He chuckled, "It's fine. His physical body is destroyed, his origin is severely wounded, the Rakshasa God Position is nearly half-ruined, and his ambitions have been completely exposed. The only way he can possibly make a comeback now is through the seal of the Golden Dragon King, which is exactly what I want to see. Otherwise, I couldn't very well go and open the seal myself, could I?"
The universe returned to silence, but a massive storm that would sweep through both the God Realm and the lower realms had not yet fully ended.
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